 | Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1820 - 838 pages
...with him. (2) (b) This evidence, upon general principles, is clearly admissible in mitigation, since a person of disparaged fame is not entitled to the same measure of damages as another whose character is un- i 147 1 blemished ; and besides, in this particular case, the evidence... | |
 | William Hough - 1825 - 1028 pages
...suspected of the crime imputed to him. This evidence has been thought to be admissible, on the ground that a person of disparaged fame, is not entitled to the same measure of damages, as another whose character is unblemished. And Lord Ellenborough is reported to have held, in a late... | |
 | e. & g.w. blunt - 1828 - 884 pages
...same rule prevails here as to general character. (2 Cowen, 813, 14.) This is upon the principle that a person of disparaged fame, is not entitled to the same measure of damages, as another whose character is unblemished. It is remarked in 1 Ph. Ev. 147, on the authority of Snowdon... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1828 - 880 pages
...same rule prevails here as to general character. (2 Ctiwen, 813, 14.) This is upon the principle that a person of disparaged fame, is not entitled to the same measure of damages, as another wlio-u! character is unblemished. It is remarked in 1 PA. Ev. 147, on the authority of Snowdon... | |
 | e. & g.w. blunt - 1828 - 884 pages
...rule prevails here as to general character. (2 Coteen, 813, 14.) This is upon the pfih--f ciple that a person of disparaged fame, is not entitled to the' same measure of damages, as another whose character is unblemished. It is remarked in 1 PA. Ev. 147, on the authority of Snowdpn... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - Law reports, digests, etc - 1828 - 880 pages
...on the election of the Plaintiff to be nonsuited, yet Lord Ellenborough there states in terms that " A person of disparaged fame is not entitled to the same measure of damages as one whose character is unblemished: and it is competent to shew that by evidence." Mr. Justice Bayley... | |
 | Law - 1830 - 438 pages
...not to obtain, if his character is of little or no estimation in society.' Per Parsons, CJ ubi sup. ' A person of disparaged fame is not entitled to the...unblemished; and it is competent to show that by evidence.' Per Lord Ellenborough, 1 M. fa S. 286. So in other actions, the character and standing of the parties... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - Libel and slander - 1830 - 474 pages
...itself, and the principle on which it is founded, in the most clear and explicit manner; he observes, " Certainly a person of disparaged fame is not entitled...unblemished, and it is competent to show that by evidence." And Grose and Bayley, Js. agreed, that such evidence was admissible in mitigation of damages. In the... | |
 | John Simcoe Saunders - Civil procedure - 1831 - 598 pages
...that the plt. was generally suspected of the crime imputed to him, — v. Moor, 1 M. Sf S. 284 ; " and certainly a person of disparaged fame is not entitled...unblemished ; and it is competent to show that by evidence :" p. Ld. Ellenb., ib. ; and see Earl of Leicester v. Walter, 2 Camp. 251. In actions for crim. con.... | |
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Certainly a person of disparaged fame is not entitled to the same measure of damages with one whose character is unblemished, and it is competent to show that by evidence. 
